• HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works
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    21 hours ago

    From an outsider’s POV (I’m Canadian) I see 2 main causes: private for-profit healthcare and almost unlimited access to guns.

    Fixing those two would go a long way towards changing the death rate.

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      20 hours ago

      Well, there’s that, and also

      • Having to work really long hours to try to make ends meet
      • Being underpaid
      • No or minimal time off work (vacation and sick time both, and sometimes even medical leave doesn’t protect you all that much)
      • Poor worker’s rights in general
      • Crushing cost of housing
      • Crushing cost of education
      • Food and everything else you need to live is getting more expensive all the time, and the quality often goes down
      • Poor quality of medical care (on top of the exorbitant cost)
      • Not being able to spend much time with friends and family because they’re all drowning in work or otherwise struggling
      • Thinking about the number of friends and family who have killed themselves, come close, or are likely to try